Your Turn: May 9

A "Workers Before Profits" sign is displayed on the side of a car during a New Orleans Hospitality Workers Association car and bike May Day protest in New Orleans, La. The group is protesting unfair working conditions, demanding better health care and a livable wage. A reader is right there with them.

Photo: Emily Kask /Bloomberg

No care not OK

The U.S. now has 33 percent of the world’s coronavirus cases, yet we comprise only 4.25 percent of the world’s population. Most of those who have died from the coronavirus are poor.

In our country, the poor, the working poor and 44 percent of all active workers do not have health care. Why do we, as a society, tolerate this? Why is it OK for the poor — the working poor — not to have health care?

I have to give a shoutout to reporter Vincent T. Davis and his weekly “San Antonio Stories.” Reading the paper and watching the news has been so depressing these past few months, with no real end in sight for these extraordinarily difficult times.

His stories bring into our quarantined homes and lives a different view of neighbors doing good deeds with no expectation of reward or recognition. Keep those stories coming, Mr. Davis. It’s the highlight of my Monday!

David DuMenil

Listen to just some

When I was a child in the 1960s, I was taught you should listen to and respect what the president and the governor said. When they spoke, you listened to what they said and trusted them wholeheartedly — whether you voted for them or not.

The only “leaders” I listen to in this day and age are our mayor and county judge. So far, they have led us through this pandemic with well-thought-out and prudent decisions based on science and fact. Our national and state leadership have been woefully lacking a coherent, fact-based response to this emergency.

If our president and governor think they’re doing a good job, I’ve got a trailer full of N-95 masks I can sell them.